Srikanth Adiga

Overview EPIC contains demographics and clinical data about patients. Integrating EPIC with OpenSpecimen will ensure high-quality data, avoid manual data entry errors and save data entry time of end users. This document explains the different ways in which EPIC and OpenSpecimen can be integrated. HL7 based integration EPIC will send HL7 messages (ADT) to OpenSpecimen […]

OpenSpecimen v4.2 is now available. Please see the forum post for more details: http://forums.openspecimen.org/t/openspecimen-v4-2-released/999/1 For more details email us at contact@krishagni.com. ~Sri

(from Sept 29, 2015 – originally posted on LinkedIn) We released OpenSpecimen v2.0 in June 2015 and since then made a couple of minor releases (v2.1 and v2.2). This post is about this incredible journey from caTissue to OpenSpecimen. For the uninitiated… OpenSpecimen is a free and open source biobanking informatics platform being used in 35+ […]

When you report an issue in OpenSpecimen, it is very likely that you will hear back from one of Sri, Vinayak or Poornima – the three key folks who run the company. You might think – well, seems like these guys have nothing “big” to do! 😉 Many companies delegate customer support to a “support team” – […]

We are happy to announce this year’s “OpenSpecimen Community Meet (OSCON)” plans. About OSCON: Is an annual event of OpenSpecimen adopters and ones planning to use in the future. Covers demos of new features, product training, technical sessions and product roadmap. Talks by adopters about their experiences and best practices Meet adopters from other biobanks, […]

We are happy to announce the release of OpenSpecimen v4.1 with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Release highlights: Bulk delete of objects Export of admin objects (to move data from test to production environments) Display specimen list within containers Link collection protocol with distribution protocols One-click specimen distribution Support for multiple values of ethnicity […]

This article highlights OpenSpecimen’s high degree of “configurability” to serve different types of biobanking workflows. Biobanking is a very dynamic and diverse field where a “one size fits all” approach does not work. Biospecimens could be collected for disease based biobanks (e.g. cancer biobank, orthopedic biobank, etc) or for a longitudinal clinical study or trial. […]

Here is an update on the latest happenings in the OpenSpecimen world. Got any ideas or feedback on OpenSpecimen? Click here to go to the OpenSpecimen survey form. Highlights: v3.4 release New adopters Case studies 4.0 release plan v3.4 release v3.4 is now available for production use. Please see the release announcement here. The major […]